Synonyms of tundra

tundra

noun

ˈtən-drə 

as in prairie

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country

a report on the arctic tundra of Alaska and the polar bears that inhabit that vast, frozen plain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prairie
• steppe
• plain
• grassland
• savanna
• pampa
• meadow
• veld
• moor
• heath
• campo
• lea
• champaign
• llano
• field
• down(s)
• lowland
• plateau
• bottomland
• floodplain
• upland
• flat
• table
• tableland
• bottom

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tundra

Waters are frozen early and often in the frozen tundra, which has made the Midwest somewhat of a hockey hotbed. — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026

Northern permafrost, including in the Alaskan tundra, locks roughly 1 trillion metric tons of carbon in its top three meters of soil — about 10 times the amount of carbon in the entire Amazon rainforest, above and below the surface. — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

The faces of Al Pacino and John Cazale are unmistakable — Pacino’s eyelashes, Cazale’s tundra of a forehead, their little-boyishness in close-up, the anxiety and melancholy in their eyes. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026

Durabook has unveiled the Z14I-HG, a fully rugged mobile workstation packing 682 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of AI power inside a magnesium-alloy shell built to survive everything from minus 29 °C (-20 °F) frozen tundra to plus 63 °C (145 °F) desert heat and direct sandstorm exposure. — Omar Kardoudi march 31, New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2026